Category: Sri Lanka

Welcome to Sri Lanka, where the scenery is always green, the palm trees are ever present, and…

Outside our house, across the road, exists this telephone pole. Birds and squirrels perch on it regularly….

Of sorts. Orange stripes would make you think of a bee, right? Yeah, not so much. From…

We've got a lot of squirrels, too, in Sri Lanka. We had one invade the second house…

The yellow-billed babbler is quite a common bird in Sri Lanka. They visit our yard, poke through…

At our house in Sri Lanka, we'd see chameleons in our yard every now and then. Sometimes…

Because they run fast and they breed too quickly. From wildlife Geckos are a real nuisance. I…

Yeah. We have a lot of wildlife in Sri Lanka. A lot. Some of it, I love….

One of my favouritest things about Sri Lanka… Having neighborhood monkeys. Purple face langurs, aka purple faced…

I went outside to the front yard – probably to hang up laundry or something – and…

This is a continuation of the last post on the <a href=”http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2013/06/kurunegala-sunday-market/”>Kurunegala Sunday market</a>. From Sri Lanka…

Waaaaaay back in July 2010, Fahim and I along with his sibs and their families and Fahim&#39;s…

I read somewhere, sometime, a very very long time ago, that when a chameleon turns deep red…

While we didn&#39;t have as many birds in Auckland as we did in Sri Lanka, we still…

From New Zealand Fahim and I arrived in New Zealand last on the 28th of February. By…

There’s been the makings of a nest between the eavestroughing and the house since as long as I’ve lived here, which is over three years. Until now, I’ve seen no activity involving it – no birds coming and going, no building, nothing. … Squatters or no, I’m glad they’ve taken over the vacant space. 🙂 These pictures are taken from the end of February.

I played with colour and light, and upped the black intensity in combination with getting as close as I could to the palm leaf.

I’ve mentioned before that we have a few croton plants in our garden. I love them – they’re colourful and interesting to look at, methinks, and even lovelier after a good rain. 🙂 I hope you enjoy looking at my crotons as much as I have. 🙂

He must have broken free from his travelling circus where he works on the tightrope. … Because, honestly, other than ants or other bugs on the bark, what could the squirrel possibly be interested in? … Apparently, he’s had enough of me snapping his picture.

This is a papaya leaf from the volunteer papaya tree growing in our front yard. We still don’t know whether it’s a boy plant, a girl plant, or a bisexual/hermaphrodite plant.

I’ve had a LOT of chameleon visitors lately. … A hint that I need to keep taking photos of them until I get it right? Did they lay eggs somewhere in our garden?

Today’s photo is of the front door of our house. I ran across a weekly themed photographic challenge over at Spain Daily through my friend Lynn Rutz’s photoblog , and I’m hoping they’ll let me play. This week’s theme is Front Door .

But every time I try to think “Contortionist Squirrel”, it comes out as “Contortionist Barbie”. Sue me. 🙂 Yup, squirrels hang out a lot around our house. … And since they don’t cause any bad behavior as long as they don’t come inside – which they haven’t with this house *knocks on wood* – I’m pretty much fine with them. 🙂 This one, today, was climbing all over the tree, upside down, sideways, just having a good ol’ time.

This is some of the loose change that’s been hanging around. We have coins from Canada, the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka (of course), and who knows where else. It just… finds its way here…

Nikon D90, 105mm focal length, 1/125 sec at f/5.6, ISO 3200, no flash There’s a tutorial over at Digital Photography School, which is, by the way, a cool photographic website, on water droplet photography . … Instead of using a coloured plate below a glass dish for color and a piece of coloured paper for the background, my setup is this: I put my cutting board over the sink, a glass pie plate on the cutting board, and added food colouring to the water in the pie plate so I wouldn’t have to worry about a nonexistent coloured plate. … It was difficult to get the water drops in focus – my kitchen is not very bright, much to my dismay. 🙂 On the other hand, it was enough fun that this is something I’ll definitely do again. 😀 It’ll be interesting to see how future experiments end up.